Monthly Archives: October 2015

It was bound to happen….

It was bound to happen – eventually. There I was, happily opening a new bottle of essential oil. I stuck my nose close to the dripolater and inhaled. I also didn’t quite get the cap off right. I twisted the top off the tamper seal and SPLAT! I got a spray of straight essentials inside my nose. Not good.

PSA: The inside of your nose is VERY sensitive! The membranes inside your nose are the main passageway for the air you breathe. They are also loaded with blood vessels. What does that mean? Getting oil in your nose deposits it directly into your blood stream – faster than ingesting or inhaling. Even a drop of something considered safe, like lavender, could have a detrimental effect on your health. Excessive use of lavender essential oil, even blended with other oils, can cause vomiting, constipation, nausea, or headaches. Now imagine that in a sharp rush. Not good!

So there I am, dripping essential oil from my nose and annoyed. I had to gently dab away the excess, use my first aid training, and send out a call for help. Since it wasn’t much oil, I was safe to stay home – provided I take precautions. Yes, the dreaded saline solution – right in the nozzle. BLECH.

For your own usage, I recommend that you keep all the oils I make away from your eyes, mouth and the inside of your nose. I also suggest that any oil of any kind stay on the OUTSIDE of your body unless directed by your doctor or nurse. To be clear, I’m really serious. Don’t put any oils in your nose, eyes or mouth unless your doctor or nurse says so – not your nutritionist, essential oil sales representative, aromatherapist, mom or best friend.

Every body is different. Everyone will have a different reaction to essential oils and blends. If you find that you’re having a reaction, please call or go to your nearest healthcare facility.

We live our lives as networks of energy bound together as particles and waves, knitted into the conscious form of a being, that is itself in a complex dance with other beings; spreading out into an untold vastness of substance, through time, into nothingness with form.

At this Kaleidoscope we reflect on our place in the Universe, as scientific fact and as poetic observation, as traditional knowledge and as emotional reaction.

The Kaleidoscope Gathering is a festival put on by its participants. “Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to share.” It is by teaching too that the best learning is done.

Ideas for sharing, through workshops, rituals, or conversations include:

What does your favoured mythology say about how the cosmos is arranged? How was it formed?

What art or craft says “outer space” or “the stars” most to you?

Does life exist “out there” in the vastness of space? What is humanity’s interactions with them, here on earth?

How has science fiction writing influenced modern Paganism? (You grok?)

What ritual tool can we fashion to best connect with the cosmos?

What building blocks of reality are used in your spiritual tradition? Is it elements, atoms, energy, chi, prana, vril? What is this substance of the cosmos and how does it work?

How do the stars and planets influence our lives?

How does consciousness exist past the human mind? In animals, plants, the ‘inanimate’, ecosystems, the Earth, the gods?

What symbol best represents the cosmos? Why, and how is it used?

What is the difference between ourselves, aliens, spirits, supernatural beings, the Other, or the Gods?

What stories and myths are written in the night sky?

How do we travel to other places in the cosmos without a rocket ship?

What will be the future of Paganism, when humanity begins to have societies living on other plants?

We live our lives as networks of energy bound together as particles and waves, knitted into the conscious form of a being, that is itself in a complex dance with other beings; spreading out into an untold vastness of substance, through time, into nothingness with form.

At this Kaleidoscope we reflect on our place in the Universe, as scientific fact and as poetic observation, as traditional knowledge and as emotional reaction.

The Kaleidoscope Gathering is a festival put on by its participants. “Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to share.” It is by teaching too that the best learning is done.

Ideas for sharing, through workshops, rituals, or conversations include:

What does your favoured mythology say about how the cosmos is arranged? How was it formed?

What art or craft says “outer space” or “the stars” most to you?

Does life exist “out there” in the vastness of space? What is humanity’s interactions with them, here on earth?

How has science fiction writing influenced modern Paganism? (You grok?)

What ritual tool can we fashion to best connect with the cosmos?

What building blocks of reality are used in your spiritual tradition? Is it elements, atoms, energy, chi, prana, vril? What is this substance of the cosmos and how does it work?

How do the stars and planets influence our lives?

How does consciousness exist past the human mind? In animals, plants, the ‘inanimate’, ecosystems, the Earth, the gods?

What symbol best represents the cosmos? Why, and how is it used?

What is the difference between ourselves, aliens, spirits, supernatural beings, the Other, or the Gods?

What stories and myths are written in the night sky?

How do we travel to other places in the cosmos without a rocket ship?

What will be the future of Paganism, when humanity begins to have societies living on other plants?

We live our lives as networks of energy bound together as particles and waves, knitted into the conscious form of a being, that is itself in a complex dance with other beings; spreading out into an untold vastness of substance, through time, into nothingness with form.

At this Kaleidoscope we reflect on our place in the Universe, as scientific fact and as poetic observation, as traditional knowledge and as emotional reaction.

The Kaleidoscope Gathering is a festival put on by its participants. “Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to share.” It is by teaching too that the best learning is done.

Ideas for sharing, through workshops, rituals, or conversations include:

What does your favoured mythology say about how the cosmos is arranged? How was it formed?

What art or craft says “outer space” or “the stars” most to you?

Does life exist “out there” in the vastness of space? What is humanity’s interactions with them, here on earth?

How has science fiction writing influenced modern Paganism? (You grok?)

What ritual tool can we fashion to best connect with the cosmos?

What building blocks of reality are used in your spiritual tradition? Is it elements, atoms, energy, chi, prana, vril? What is this substance of the cosmos and how does it work?

How do the stars and planets influence our lives?

How does consciousness exist past the human mind? In animals, plants, the ‘inanimate’, ecosystems, the Earth, the gods?

What symbol best represents the cosmos? Why, and how is it used?

What is the difference between ourselves, aliens, spirits, supernatural beings, the Other, or the Gods?

What stories and myths are written in the night sky?

How do we travel to other places in the cosmos without a rocket ship?

What will be the future of Paganism, when humanity begins to have societies living on other plants?

We live our lives as networks of energy bound together as particles and waves, knitted into the conscious form of a being, that is itself in a complex dance with other beings; spreading out into an untold vastness of substance, through time, into nothingness with form.

At this Kaleidoscope we reflect on our place in the Universe, as scientific fact and as poetic observation, as traditional knowledge and as emotional reaction.

The Kaleidoscope Gathering is a festival put on by its participants. “Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to share.” It is by teaching too that the best learning is done.

Ideas for sharing, through workshops, rituals, or conversations include:

What does your favoured mythology say about how the cosmos is arranged? How was it formed?

What art or craft says “outer space” or “the stars” most to you?

Does life exist “out there” in the vastness of space? What is humanity’s interactions with them, here on earth?

How has science fiction writing influenced modern Paganism? (You grok?)

What ritual tool can we fashion to best connect with the cosmos?

What building blocks of reality are used in your spiritual tradition? Is it elements, atoms, energy, chi, prana, vril? What is this substance of the cosmos and how does it work?

How do the stars and planets influence our lives?

How does consciousness exist past the human mind? In animals, plants, the ‘inanimate’, ecosystems, the Earth, the gods?

What symbol best represents the cosmos? Why, and how is it used?

What is the difference between ourselves, aliens, spirits, supernatural beings, the Other, or the Gods?

What stories and myths are written in the night sky?

How do we travel to other places in the cosmos without a rocket ship?

What will be the future of Paganism, when humanity begins to have societies living on other plants?

We live our lives as networks of energy bound together as particles and waves, knitted into the conscious form of a being, that is itself in a complex dance with other beings; spreading out into an untold vastness of substance, through time, into nothingness with form.

At this Kaleidoscope we reflect on our place in the Universe, as scientific fact and as poetic observation, as traditional knowledge and as emotional reaction.

The Kaleidoscope Gathering is a festival put on by its participants. “Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to share.” It is by teaching too that the best learning is done.

Ideas for sharing, through workshops, rituals, or conversations include:

What does your favoured mythology say about how the cosmos is arranged? How was it formed?

What art or craft says “outer space” or “the stars” most to you?

Does life exist “out there” in the vastness of space? What is humanity’s interactions with them, here on earth?

How has science fiction writing influenced modern Paganism? (You grok?)

What ritual tool can we fashion to best connect with the cosmos?

What building blocks of reality are used in your spiritual tradition? Is it elements, atoms, energy, chi, prana, vril? What is this substance of the cosmos and how does it work?

How do the stars and planets influence our lives?

How does consciousness exist past the human mind? In animals, plants, the ‘inanimate’, ecosystems, the Earth, the gods?

What symbol best represents the cosmos? Why, and how is it used?

What is the difference between ourselves, aliens, spirits, supernatural beings, the Other, or the Gods?

What stories and myths are written in the night sky?

How do we travel to other places in the cosmos without a rocket ship?

What will be the future of Paganism, when humanity begins to have societies living on other plants?

We live our lives as networks of energy bound together as particles and waves, knitted into the conscious form of a being, that is itself in a complex dance with other beings; spreading out into an untold vastness of substance, through time, into nothingness with form.

At this Kaleidoscope we reflect on our place in the Universe, as scientific fact and as poetic observation, as traditional knowledge and as emotional reaction.

The Kaleidoscope Gathering is a festival put on by its participants. “Everyone has something to learn, everyone has something to share.” It is by teaching too that the best learning is done.

Ideas for sharing, through workshops, rituals, or conversations include:

What does your favoured mythology say about how the cosmos is arranged? How was it formed?

What art or craft says “outer space” or “the stars” most to you?

Does life exist “out there” in the vastness of space? What is humanity’s interactions with them, here on earth?

How has science fiction writing influenced modern Paganism? (You grok?)

What ritual tool can we fashion to best connect with the cosmos?

What building blocks of reality are used in your spiritual tradition? Is it elements, atoms, energy, chi, prana, vril? What is this substance of the cosmos and how does it work?

How do the stars and planets influence our lives?

How does consciousness exist past the human mind? In animals, plants, the ‘inanimate’, ecosystems, the Earth, the gods?

What symbol best represents the cosmos? Why, and how is it used?

What is the difference between ourselves, aliens, spirits, supernatural beings, the Other, or the Gods?

What stories and myths are written in the night sky?

How do we travel to other places in the cosmos without a rocket ship?

What will be the future of Paganism, when humanity begins to have societies living on other plants?